A flaw was found in the way ICU processed certain, invalid byte sequencesduring Unicode conversion. If an application used ICU to decode malformed,multibyte character data, it may have been possible to bypass certaincontent protection mechanisms, or display information in a mannermisleading to the user. (CVE-2009-0153)

All users of icu should upgrade to these updated packages, which containbackported patches to resolve this issue.

4. Solution:

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-releasederrata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to usethe Red Hat Network to apply this update are available athttp://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259